yoursdp.org Archives - 07 January 2012, Saturday

The simple, and obviously heartfelt, admission posted on her Facebook has drawn a raging backlash. And no wonder. The statement was tone-deaf, at best, and utterly contemptuous of those she's suppose to serve, at worst. Consider these: The poorest segment of our society has seen their...

I will agree that The SDP is the most forceful and the most active voice for democracy in Singapore, but have made no progress in parliament. The WP on the other hand, isn't quite as forceful, but they have now 6 seats in parliament. Why did the WP win but not the SDP? I sincerely thi...

The Singapore Democratic Party acknowledges the PAP Government's heed of the unhappiness of Singaporeans about the level of ministers' salaries and welcomes the steps taken to remedy the problem. However, the recommendations made by the commission led by Mr Gerard Ee is nowhere close ...

More than 60 members and friends of the SDP gathered at East Coast Parkway on New Year's Eve to greet 2012. At at the stroke of midnight, against the backdrop of bright red flares shot into the night sky by ships anchored out at sea, everyone cheered for the New Year and looked forwar...

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I am a Singaporean and have been keeping track of Singapore’s politics for a long time and over the years I feel that SDP has done a good job of asking the difficult questions in public. SDP has a good track record of being a vocal defender for the rights of marginalized people in Sin...

Mr Gerard Ee has indicated that the Government-appointed eight-person commission which he chairs to review ministerial salaries will be submitting its report to PM Lee Hsien Loong tomorrow, 30 Dec 11. The Singapore Democrats look forward to a comprehensive revision of not just the amo...

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Robert Dahlberg, a 34-year-old New Zealander, was charged with assault and causing grievous bodily harm when he and two other foreign nationals, an Australian and a Briton, beat up four people at Suntec City in April 2010. The three men were drunk when they attacked four taxi drivers ...

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The recent serial breakdown of train services laid bare the difference between the Government's rhetoric on national security and the reality of its provision. Leaving aside the matter of how the trains and tracks malfunctioned, there is the equally important concern of the fact that ...

The recent serial breakdown of train services laid bare the difference between the Government's rhetoric on national security and the reality of its provision. Leaving aside the matter of how the trains and tracks malfunctioned, there is the equally important concern of the fact that ...

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The RSAF administrative staff must be the most incompetent in the whole world which only reflects on bigwigs we have who put them there in the first place. I encountered these problems not once but four times when I applied for a job. Screw-up #1 : My first encounter was early last ye...

We are gratified to note that the PAP Government has relented on this matter and reduced the operating hours of the gantry to 8:00 pm. This is again a demonstration of the effectiveness of Singapore Democrats as an opposition party. We take pride in pointing out the flaws in PAP's pol...

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PAP Member of Parliament Mr Seng Han Thong's racially offensive remarks about woes of train service breakdowns made worse by Malay and Indian SMRT employees' because of their poor command of the English language of is a symptom of a larger problem within the ruling party. The Singapor...

Indeed, sensing the urgency of the situation and the alarm of the people of Singapore, the Prime Minister himself cut short his holiday and returned home. These measures are to be welcomed. As we mentioned in our statement, the public transport system is the arterial base of the commu...

said that the SMRT was a private entity and onus is on the company - not the government - to ensure that their premises are safe and secure. The Minister was responding to criticisms that the PAP Government had not done a proper job in ensuring adequate security in the MRT system afte...

Chia Thye Poh may be forgiven for thinking that after 33 years in confinement, people from both ends of the Causeway have relegated him to the annals of history. On the evidence of the reception he received at the Confucian Private Secondary School in Lorong Hang Jebat here yesterday,...

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"What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" This was a question that author and activist Naomi Klein tackled in her talk at TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference lecture. She was speaking on the subject of climate change but used it to address the issue...

The PAP is quick (and often unjustifiably so) to seize on accolades about anything Singaporean and cover itself with glory. But when it makes a blunder, its cowardly instincts take over: It finds a scapegoat and points the finger at others. We saw this in the Mas Selamat howler where ...

These breakdowns have taken place across many months and not days as Mr Lui says. Alarmingly, some of them occurred on the same day or just days apart. The list above is, of course, not exhaustive. In 2010, there were 28 disruptions to MRT services. The number was 17 as of October thi...

The Singapore Democrats recently marked World Human Rights Day on 10 December with this video message from Ms Teo Soh Lung. But the PAP insists that human rights - and by extension, democracy - is a Western concept alien to the Asian mindset. We present below historical facts to demon...

And make money he did. By 2004 Geraint Anderson was drawing an annual income of $1 million with Dresdner Kleinwort where he worked. His views on the stockmarket were even sought by business cable news networks like CNBC. Traders, Anderson adds, "want to make out like they're doing som...

But herein lies the problem. It was the push for de-regulation of the banking system in the US that has led to the mess that we are witnessing across the world in such an unprecedented scale. The process to de-regulate the financial system started in the 1980s when US bankers pushed f...

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Ms Surayah Akbar spoke up against human trafficking and called on the Government to do more to tackle the on-going in Singapore. Ms Suraya, a leading member of the SDP's women wing, delivered an impassioned speech at the Slutwalk event held at Hong Lim Park on Sunday. Organisers of th...

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The longest-serving political prisoner in the Asian history, former Singapore member of parliament Chia Thye Poh, 70 years old, was awarded the Lim Lian Geok Spirit Award today, which is announced by the LLG Cultural Development Centre at a press conference. The reason for his winning...

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Not many know that today our top civil servants, those in the staff grade and top super scale are already being paid a nett total of $1-$2million p.a. Including the various bonuses. These include the Supreme Court judges, the SAF and Police chiefs, the Perm Secs and CEOs of Stat Board...

Given the might of the corporate interests in the US, however, concerns for the welfare and rights of workers were brushed aside and the USSFTA was quickly passed by the US Government. Pandering to MNCs MNCs, being the entities that they are, are on the constant look out for low tax r...

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Given the might of the corporate interests in the US, however, concerns for the welfare and rights of workers were brushed aside and the USSFTA was quickly passed by the US Government. Pandering to MNCs MNCs, being the entities that they are, are on the constant look out for low tax r...

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A little before 11am last Saturday morning, Young PAP members addressed a small group that had, according to its Facebook page, “trickled” into Speakers’ Corner to hear a call for lower public transport fares for polytechnic students at an event called "Wear White for Fairer Fare". Po...

It must be so bizarre that the one person who loves you beyond words and whom you also love the most in this world goes on to make you a widow – and without polite notice! So it is the case with my beloved. As I stepped off the plane, I received a text message sent a few hours ago tha...

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Top-secret documents held by the British Government, now declassified, reveal some jaw-dropping facts about Lee Kuan Yew and how he came to power. When Lim Chin Siong, another of Lee Kuan Yew's prisoners, died in 1996, the PAP was equally anxious to make sure that Lim's portrayal as a...

Great speech, but I would say that it is a good identification of the problems that we face in Singapore, but there is a severe lack of understanding on why it occurred. He fails to realize that all the problems are the result of government intervention into the market, ie a result of...